Governance on Social Media Data: Different Focuses between Government and Internet Company

EasyChair Preprint no. 924

Abstract

How governments and Internet companies regulate user data on social media attracts public attention. This study tried to answer two questions: What kind of countries send more requests for Facebook user data? What kind of countries get more requests replies from Facebook? We aim to figure out how a country's economic, political and social factors affect its government requests for user data and Facebook's responses rate to those requests. Results show that countries with higher GDP per capita, a higher level of human freedom and a lower level of rule of law send more requests for user data; while Facebook tends to reply to government requests from countries with a higher level of human freedom and a lower level of political stability. In conclusion, governments and Facebook show different focuses on governance on social media data.

Keyphrases: Data-request, facebook company, facebook user data, government request, government requests, Human Freedom, Internet governance, Political Stability, rule of law, social media, user data, user data requests

@Booklet{EasyChair:924,
  author = {Yu Wenting and Chris Fei Shen and Min Chen},
  title = {Governance on Social Media Data: Different Focuses between Government and Internet Company},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 924},

  year = {EasyChair, 2019}}